Draw Me Without Boundaries

Margaret Gibson, the poet laureate of Connecticut from 2019 to 2022, is the author of fourteen collections of poems, including The Vigil, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her honors include the Lamont Poetry Selection, the Melville Kane Award, and two Connecticut Book Awards. She is the editor of Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis.

Draw Me without Boundaries is a fluid and eloquent meditation that embodies the wisdom of a life lived with wonder and with ethical attention and consideration. Everything we might hope for in a book from Margaret Gibson, these brilliantly lyrical monologues and her dramatic throughlines, as intimate as they are archetypal, invite comparison to Virginia Woolf's The Waves. - Paula Closson Buck ""In these intimate, truth-telling poems, Gibson has conjured two lives out of the air and made them indelible. I greatly admire the range, depth, and subtle strangeness in the thrilling counterpoint of their voices, which sing as they investigate youth and age, love and loss, and their last days together on a wounded earth."" - Chase Twichell ""Expanding her mastery as a lyric and meditative writer, Gibson has given us a remarkable book, full of gratitude for what is here and goes on (in all its infinite manifestations) and regret for what is always being lost."" - Robert Cording